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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1500-1599In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philologist Hegendorff's writings on law logic, and of the ...Gabriel Harvey unknownInstitutesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 1st Book of Quinctilian "De Institutione Oratoria"...'Thomas Green QuintilianInstitutesPrint: Book
1800-1849'It occurred to me; much about the same time that it would be proper to study Stewart's Essays, Berkel[e]y's principes of knowledge, Rumfords Essays, Newton ['s] Institut...Thomas Carlyle Sir Isaac NewtonInstitutesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Timur's Institutes...'Mounstuart Elphinstone TimurInstitutesPrint: Book
1800-1849"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W...Frances Power Cobbe Sir William JonesInstitutes of MenuPrint: Book
1600-1699'By and by I got him to read part of my Lord Cooke's chapter of Treason, which is mighty well worth reading and doth inform me in many things; and for aught I see, it is ...Henry Moore Sir Edward CokeInstitutes of the laws of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William CamdenInstitutio graecae grammatices compendiariaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was deeply engag'd in Homer & Burgesdicius, otherwise should have answer'd it [letter from John Potter] sooner. I hope you don't think I preferr'd the old musty Greek...Richard Hurd Francis Burgerdiscius [Burgersdijk]Institutionum LogicarumPrint: Book
1600-1699He [The earl of Oxford] desired me (companie being with him) to take home the paper, and advise him what he was to do. When I had perused it, I wayted on him again. . .John Bramston InstructionsManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846), though lately he had ...Max Beerbohm Oscar WildeIntentionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'Mary Shelley Thomas MooreIntercepted Letters; or, Twopenny Post-BagPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger". H.M. Wallis gave us an appreciation of 'Q's' work...Charles Evans Arthur Quiller-CouchInterlude: On Jargon Print: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Charles Eucharist de Medicis SajousInternal Secretions and the Principles of MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899'I think the enclosed is worth your notice. On making a search, there is no "enclosure". But the International Express Train Service Co, who have an office in Cockspur...R.E. Prothero International Express Train Co monthly guidePrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Looks at cartoon first. "Oh, quite right, you know. It is these people who - I love those two. Yes". Turns to Priestley quotation, "He's come out lately, this Priestley,... anonInternees LeafletPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Reads the front page, turns to the back, looks at the cartoon intently as if trying to understand it; then opens it and says, "What's all this?" "Have I got to read it a... anonInternees LeafletPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Reads part. "This is very interesting". Reads carefully. "Of course it was ridiculous jamming all foreigners into concentration camps. I call that a good leaflet -very i... anonInternees LeafletPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945Henry James to Mrs William James, 22 May 1900: 'Thank you [...] for telling me of Santayana's book (P. and R.) which has come and which I find of an irresistible distract...Henry James George SantayanaInterpretations of Poetry and ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Continued "Wonders of the human body" and began again Watson's "Intimations and evidences of a future state. Studied lecture.'John Cole WatsonIntimations and evidences of a future statePrint: Book
1900-1945'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly a...members of XII Book ClubReginald RobsonIntimations of ImmortalityManuscript: Unknown


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